Chapter 42.4: Converging Schemes
While Wepp made his way down the steps and along the northern wall of the room, Minkus leapt to the main floor and took off at a jog through the center of the chamber, glancing only long enough at each green tube to determine whether Ventyr or Yissa were inside it. At least, he tried to only glance at them.
Chapter 42.2: Incursion
At the other end of Thaumacore’s eastern wing, Minkus stepped out of the sunlight, through the daunting front doorway, and into the main corridor of the complex. He tugged at the collar of his stolen Inquest uniform. Starched stiff and fitted to the slender guard he’d taken it from, the whole outfit pressed in on him like a crunchy, woolen sausage casing.
Chapter 42.1: Who We Follow
Comakk stood still, letting all the busyness of lab Delta’s teams stream past him. Team members moved crates, applied final calibrations to the expulsion units, and tried desperately to stay out of Kikka’s line of sight. They were useful, even talented, but they were all cowards.
Chapter 41.4: Suiting Up
The two of them reached the tree line without any further problems, hopefully disappearing once more from sight. Minkus worked to catch his breath.
Chapter 41.3: Perimeter Defenses
Penny pushed it all out of her mind and set her sights once more on the runaway guard. With a grimace she passed his companion, who still stared wide-eyed at the scene. Leaving him there would probably come back to bite her, but that lock-kneed idiot wasn’t the immediate threat.
Chapter 41.2: Guard Duty
Chapter 41.1: Time Up
If there was anything Christoff Veritas really knew, it was biding time. In some ways, his whole life had been a matter of biding time, just an endless series of events he’d waited for. While his father had lived, he’d sustained the man’s unrelenting training, just waiting for the day he’d perfect the spellcraft of the Veritas bloodline.
Chapter 40.2: Minkus’ Krewe
Minkus rounded the first bend in the ravine, glancing back to see the gates of the Vigil outpost disappear beyond the lichen-coated northern wall. Now he couldn’t even see the glimpses of it he’d been getting between thickets; it was just gone.
Chapter 38.3: A Little Chaos
Chapter 38.2: Working Prototype
Chapter 38.1: A Captain of the Vigil
“That is quite the story,” Gelwin mused. He sat in nearly the same place and posture throughout their telling.
